Playstation Meeting 2013: PS Vita forgotten?

The Playstation Meeting 2013 has just ended and although I am really amazed with what the PS4 has to offer, I am seriously disapointed as well. It seems that Sony just concentrated on the PS4, and totally ignored the PSVita. The only PS Vita demonstration was its remote play with the PS4.

This has been quite disapointing because most of us had expected the PS Vita to get some love as well, we also heard from Sony about a new firmware update which would add a lot of new features but nothing about this was mentioned in the Meeting. No new titles for the PS Vita have been announced. It seems that Sony doesn’t care too much about the Vita and that the announcement a few days ago was the only thing special they planned for the Vita.

The Playstation Meeting has ended with announcements of AAA titles for the PS4, these titles beat even the PS Vita’s launch line up. Some games from major franchises, like Killzone Shadow Fall and InFAMOUS: Second Son have also been announced. The PS4 shows off impressive graphics which surpass modern computer graphics:

On the third-party front, Ubisoft demoed live its upcoming Watch Dogs game made by its Ubisoft Montreal studio. Capcom and Square Enix also demoed early PS4 graphics engines called Panta Rhei, and Luminous Engine. Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto promised an upcoming Final Fantasy title for the platform, which it plans to unveil at this year’s E3.

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Maybe Sony is realizing that dedicated handheld gaming has lost the battle to generic mobile phones and tablets. It is also very likely that lots of Vita owners are people who also own a PS3, and to me this is why they are refocusing with the Vita being “only” an additional screen for the home console.

Streaming also adds to my suspicions, that the Vita will become only one portable device in a sea of (non Sony) devices that can play (stream) Playstation content.

Of course, that’s assuming that the network will be good enough (bandwidth and ping) to support their streaming system, which many people doubt.

I think the +20 Million 3DS sales begs to differ. Sure, more people have smartphones and tablets, but the 3DS proves that the dedicated handheld gaming market isn’t a lost cause and has a lot of money to be made in. When Pokemon X/Y comes out, those 3DS sales are going to absolutely explode, especially in Japan.

My point is, if Sony would correct the Vita like Nintendo has corrected the 3DS ship since its “failed” launch, the Vita could actually be very successful. It really is a shame about Sony’s incompetence.

actually it was not forgotten it said that ps vita would be integrated with gaikai/playstation cloud and thats probably the update with all the features all game will be remote play and all ps3 games will hopefully be remote play they said.

Octo-core doesn’t mean much if all the cores are weak, as someone else pointed out on this site AMD’s octo cores are likely more powerful than Sony’s offering and still tend to get blown out of the water by Intel’s quad-cores.

Now all of this sounds very… efficient, but not necessarily powerful. That combined gpu/cpu? PC already has access to that and is primarily used for laptops/super budget builds, not gaming rigs. That ram is likely fast enough to dance around DDR3 IF it wasn’t also pulling the gpu’s weight (dedicated cards have DDR5 memory on the chips), and once again it doesn’t sound like all 8 cores of the cpu will be dedicated towards gaming, leaving a few for backup, media, etc.

For the record, if it comes priced between $400-500, it’ll likely be a better buy than a rig built for around the same amount and should get more mileage assuming we can avoid more technicolor follies this console generation.

I have a feeling that you are thinking of the architecture in terms of Intel HD Graphics.

The HD Graphics shared memory technique is actually quite smart, the RAM would still be as fast as a normal DDR5 because the PS4 is likely optimized to use the integrated GPU style design, the Intel HD Graphics is a seriously underused chip, it actually has quite potential because it isn’t limited to it’s own RAM, by borrowing from System RAM, it can use more RAM than any other GPU, it is a little known fact that AAA games like GTA 4 on the PC were designed to ignore the HD Graphics’ power (it preferred NVIDIA and I think that it was sponsered by them as well) but compare it to Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and you can see that even with those beautiful graphics, it runs very well because it is able to use the card effectively.

I believe that the PS4 devkits are probably designed to use the enhanced ability of an integrated GPU (it gives the game up to 8 GB GPU RAM) plus, because there aren’t options here, so it is very likely that the PS4 is optimized for its graphics card and RAM speed.

And of course don’t forget, that’s an old x86 architecture, which means it is by far weaker as any x64. And that x86 combined with 8GB ram, something does not fit, cause it could natively address only 4GB. So by pc standards it is already a 3 – 4 year old device. Btw my current pc got 4 cores (8 threads) of course x64, with 16GB ddr3 and the graphic card has alone 2,5GB dedicated gddr5 on it. If you get yourself a new rig than those values are pretty common. So those technical values of the new ps4 aren’t that astonishing. The question is, how well are dev’s going to optimize their software for the ps4.

Yeah I saw that, but why mention x86 when it is actually a 64bit architecture? That would be like advertising your car could drive 100mph but of course it could drive 20mph too. That is misleading, or not all of those cores are x64.

Could you imagine playing games with graphics like the PS3s on a PC with the same specs? 😉

Same goes for the Vita, I don’t believe that you could play games like NFS on a similar PC.

The same will probably go for the PS4, remember that the main advantage of consoles is that they are optimized for gaming. So, a PS4 is probably almost the same as the PC you have mentioned in terms of gaming performance 😉

Yeah consoles themselves are optimized (current gen) but this one is going to be more and more standard pc like means that devs are thinking they have a powerful new tool now and they won’t need to optimize their products. Which leads to lower development cost for a certain amount of time, till they reach it’s max capabilities. Then they would swap to streaming

Now you can’t compare a ps3 to a standard pc that won’t work as the ps3 has a complete different kind of technology embedded. You would be able to compare a xbox or a x360 to a pc as the gaps in between are very small or not there at all.

So what I fear now is, that the consoles becoming more and more like standard pc’s loose their optimization bonus, this means then there would be no difference anymore.

Consoles are not seriously optimized. -____- What the heck are you even saying?

Even if PS4 would be the most powerful thing in 2013 or 2014, the computer generation of gaming would quickly overtake that. That’s how fast systems evolve these days.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Just because you’re sitting on a Windows 95 machine that uses floppy disks doesn’t mean everyone else has a super-old and outdated computer. -___-

Consoles are VERY optimized, you couldn’t run GTA 4, for example on a Pc with just 256 MB RAM and 256 MB VRAM even if you had a 3.4 GHz processor, but you CAN play it on a PS3.

Also, I didn’t mention anything at all about it being future proof 😉

It seems you don’t have too much of an idea of what you’re talking about, I did my research before saying this. and well you did guess right, I do have an old PC that DOES have a floppy drive but who cares, it is very common for people to have more than one computer these days 😉

Kid(I say kid cause you have the ignorance of one) your stupid a PC is fully customizable so what you just said is literally *** and many computers come with octa cores but there useless cause no software utilizes every core, but a dipshit like you doesn’t know that you see big numbers that in reality aren’t that big and you hop on it like your mom hops on dicks.

More ram gives you better possibility of caching data, this means faster loading times in general, and less lag in critical parts of the games. Like any other performance component of a computer, it is relevant, and usually the more you have the better. It doesn’t mean 8GB will always make a difference, but dependently of the situation, it can.

My PC has 8gb of ram and a six core cpu which ill be upgrading to the 8 core soon. They dont mention the speed at which the PS4 will be running those cores at either. Undoubtably PC technology is superior and always will be since its always being enhanced especially with graphics cards being improved on a near montbly basis. I will get the ps4 but i still think PC gaming is the ultimate.

well sony will make up for the psp since it was more of there portable gaming its in the name … with the mobile gaming sale there probly jus have ps one n/or psp gaming for sale to play on outher mobile device that app thing will probly let u connect to the sony cloud to play streamed games n the vita is more the next gen portable but since android market they useing it more for remote play for the ps4 but more vita games would be cool hope can still go into gamin stop to buy game cartrige still n they end up atleast making game cartrige with like 5 psx game or 3 ps2 games n ps2 come to the vita.. playing a vita game will streaming to the ps4 nice hoping cuz it be like having a huge azz tv

No like shawn said, it wasn’t forgotten, however this conference was all about the ps4, with the ps4 you’ll be able to play all it’s games on the vita, unlike the ps3, since this will be default, unlike an added feature like the ps3.

The only thing thats keeping it afloat are the hacks that get released. But as soon as a hack is released Sony kill it so they are the ones thats holding it back. They arn’t doing anything with it so its all up to the hackers.

Lets hope they release a Vita exploit soon so we can have some more life out of this expensive handheld console.

Yeah… no, hacks aren’t selling Vitas. No one in their right mind would look at someone running an emulator on a Vita and immediately whip out their Android/iPhone and order a Vita. It was cool on the PSP but on the Vita it’s almost expected.

What is DEFINITELY expected is far greater functionality from the damned thing. If Sony would get their act together on a handheld device for ONCE, then we could see a more properly functioning device rather than one that’s still trying to keep pace with it’s predecessor.

True, they really need to get their act together, just look at the Vita’s specs and compare it to a PS2 or even a PS3, the PSV by far beats the PS2 (Why u no announce PS2 emulator!) and rivals the PS3 (Except maybe in processing unless EACH core is 1 GHz-2GHz at which point I would go crazy (1 GHZ * 4 cores or 2 GHz * 4 cores :shocked:)

It’s not just about the specs. I guess the people that view this website and beg for exploits only look at how ‘amazing the specs are’. omfg! The Vita has better specs than the PS2, and it’s a handheld! INSTA-SELL. No.

It doesn’t work that way. It’s all about marketing. Which is why the 3DS is flourishing compared to the Vita. And there are is currently no emulation for 3DS games on the flashcards. It’s only DS, GBA, GBC, etc. So don’t use that hacking cr*p as an excuse.

Nintendo could sell canned soup and still outsell the Vita. Sony needs to focus on letting people know what the Vita is and how good it is. Instead they ignore it and hope people will shell out $200+ for a system with a proprietary memory card.

I didn’t say that its specs make it an INSTA-SELL, I just said that if sony were to make good use of the specs, they would probably sell more Vita’s (ie. if they were to fully utilize the hardware)

Also, I don’t think that the Vita can be compared to the 3DS, because it seems to me that they are both targeted at completely different audiences, I believe that the 3DS was targeted at kids and I KNOW that the PSV is targeted at adults (I read it somewhere on Sony’s site)

Although marketing does play a role in selling stuff but I am pretty sure that if the Vita was better utilized, more people who had looked at its abilities would be compelled to buy it.

It’s just that a majority of people believe that hardware is what makes the difference in terms of sales for handheld consoles.

This is not always the case. 3DS and Vita can be compared, because they are both handheld consoles.

The 3DS is not targeted to ‘just’ kids. You are wrong. They target casual gamers, younger audience, family and can even appeal to hardcore gamers with niche titles. They have a VERY wide audience, that’s why they are so marketable.

The Vita on the other hand, only appeals to a handful of gamers. I love the Vita, but Sony needs to step it’s game up and realize what Nintendo is doing better than them.

yea but they had hard time dealing with android n ios so cant blame them they n nintendo barly get by on the portable gaming with things like ipad iphone n samsung note giving a larger choice base on system with a resinable price plus most is phones so most people would be getthing a phone to call n txt n play games on as to a system only for gaming… n android n iphone games r pretty goood full hd games realy n sony best match with that was a psp but the vita did them sum justice to compet with todays iphone even thought herd the ipad mini screen was nice though apple made upgrades to the retina display..

3DS only needs to release more confirmed-because-Ninty games (More TLoZ,SSB,Mario Party,Starfox etc etc),removal of region lock (which due to stubborness will remain -.-) and of course to make a better e-shop (***,everything is far overpriced than if I ordered directly from Amazon and there aren’t any decent offers,if any)

will sony have those iluminating projecter like on the kinect for the xbox 360 n 720 pn the ps4 say the wonz they made for like the xbox 360 or sumthning was prety mean i guess to be playing a games n the room lights up the the game ur playing or how that even work for the xbox kenect think i jus made the room look like it was snowing while it was snowing in the game or sumthing…

Wow 2 hours to present a console, that they didn’t have, No specs, beside the 8 gigas of RAM. NO release date…no nothing. 2 gameplay movies…and lots of engine demos wich, i bet, were running on a high-end PC.

I don’t quite agree with this post. Not to say that I am not disappointed with close to no information regarding the future of the PS Vita but it was said that the Vita will be integrated into the PS4’s core architecture. What was his name Andrew or something? And I think it’ll be pretty cool to be able to play PS3 and PS4 games on the go provided you have the necessary bandwith to deal with the data transfer. This is nothing new and actually the same promise they had with the PS3’s Remote Play function which did and still does not quite work as promised. But this time they have the Gaikai network which might bring the long promised feature of having remote play and additionally backward compatibility in ways of streaming the games to your devices. And it was also said that there’ll be more information coming later this year (probably E3) regarding the Vita.

Jump Ship now is all I can say. Sold my Vita bought a 3001 hacked it for all the psp games and emuluators and used the remaining money to buy a 3ds XL and saddly still have remaining money. Vita+16gb memory card is so over priced its stupid

when the vita was announced and shown, did they even mention the PS3? this event was all about the PS4, but, id dose’nt mean they forgot the vita. the article is nonsense. its understandable that the spotlight is for the new platform. vita had its spotlight too and don’t forget that.

Sony would never do that, but I do agree that it would bring new life to my Vita so I can finally see if this piece of hardware is capable of emulating N64 and Dreamcast properly. More so it should be able to emulate N64 but not sure about Dreamcast.

All this bull *** are part of Sony’s strategy. They are waiting for the crowd’s reaction then re-design their ps4 prototype.

Also, Sony already knew what you f*ckrs thought of. 1 major AAA game alone will boost the vita. The initial “Overpriced” price of vita is part of the strategy to have enough bread create this AAA game.

and guest what? 3 major AAA game is already in development. Just give time for sony to do this. fcing id*ots.

That is actually not true. Literally one of the FIRST things House said in the beginning of the event was that they had a lot of great things planned for the Vita. Including: “We’ll continue to unlock PS Vita’s potential”. He said that there would be more on the Vita in the coming months but that this event was for the PS4. So all of you who are discounting the Vita and saying they do not care about it, are wrong. Rumors are why we all thought there would be MORE Vita info but I do not recall Sony ever saying that. If I recall they said next to nothing about it. Ppl assumed the event was for the Vita as well. Do not count the Vita out just yet. I will stick by this device. I did not spend $300 for it to just die off for “lack of games and apps.” Forget that. I will fly to Sony Headquarters and have a John Q situation if I have to but instead of having a son, I will have my Vita lol.